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Heavy weight for Pioneer arm

 

I’m fitting a FR7 cart in my PL 70ii. I have the heavy weight but not the little plug that goes at. The end of the arm

in having trouble securing the weight. Does anyone know what sort of screw it uses ?

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On 16/12/2024 at 7:51 PM, Peterbean said:

Heavy weight for Pioneer arm

 

I’m fitting a FR7 cart in my PL 70ii. I have the heavy weight but not the little plug that goes at. The end of the arm

in having trouble securing the weight. Does anyone know what sort of screw it uses ?

 

Do you have the screw from the lighter counterweight?    You could remove that and take it to a supplier and get another screw with the same thread.

  Or just swap the screws over if you are not using the lightweight counterweight in conjunction with the heavy one.

  realistically as long as the thread is the same, any screw can be used as it only has to tighten down the plastic inner strip to the end of the tonearm.

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I have hit another problem. In the manual it says that you can use the fr7 on the arm

 

However carbon fibre is light and it is unlikely to support a heavy cartridge.

 

I tried an fr1 sounds awful - very thin  although I have to reset some things . I’m using the S arm, I have the straight arm too, but I doubt if it’s stronger- weaker I expect. 
 

there is the ceramic arm wand but I’m starting to run out of folding stuff and it’s around $900. So perhaps a lighter cartridge. Time to get the dynavector k retipped 

 

will try again later this week 

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59 minutes ago, Peterbean said:

I have hit another problem. In the manual it says that you can use the fr7 on the arm

 

However carbon fibre is light and it is unlikely to support a heavy cartridge.

 

I tried an fr1 sounds awful - very thin  although I have to reset some things . I’m using the S arm, I have the straight arm too, but I doubt if it’s stronger- weaker I expect. 
 

there is the ceramic arm wand but I’m starting to run out of folding stuff and it’s around $900. So perhaps a lighter cartridge. Time to get the dynavector k retipped 

 

will try again later this week 

 

The PL 70ii was never designed for 30gm cartridges.   Yea, a lighter cart like the Dyna, Ortofon, Lyra, Denon etc will certainly match better.

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On 23/12/2024 at 10:16 AM, metal beat said:

 

The PL 70ii was never designed for 30gm cartridges.   Yea, a lighter cart like the Dyna, Ortofon, Lyra, Denon etc will certainly match better.

Dyna and Denon 103 look to work well. However Ortofon mc25 is too high, the arm has to go right up and has nowhere to go 

 

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